CVE-2020-35111

high
Published 2020-12-16 ยท Modified 2020-12-17
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

When an extension with the proxy permission registered to receive <all_urls>, the proxy.onRequest callback was not triggered for view-source URLs. While web content cannot navigate to such URLs, a user opening View Source could have inadvertently leaked their IP address. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, and Firefox ESR < 78.6.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 78.6.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 78.6.0esr-1
sid Fixed 84.0-1
forky Fixed 78.6.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 78.6.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 78.6.0esr-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.